I read Austin Kleon's book Steal Like An Artist recently. It's a quick read - you could read it cover-to-cover in an evening - but it's packed full of juicy wisdom. My favourite insight is Austin's theory that when people give you advice, they are really just talking to themselves in the past; …
If You Want To Help, Be At Peace
Do you get upset about the state of the world? Does the suffering of others keep you awake at night? Do you feel another's hurt as if it were your own? When I first started talking with Nantene and Malachor, I asked them about a high-profile missing child I was upset about. I wanted to help …
The Difference Between Angels and Spirit Guides
(My photo of a painting at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia) When I asked Nantene and Malachor the difference between spirit guides and angels, they said that, in human understanding, it is simply a difference in purpose or intention. The purpose of spirit guides is simply ... to …
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Spiritual Activism
You may have seen in the news that a Dutch church had been holding round-the-clock services for over three months to protect a refugee family from deportation. The church took advantage of an obscure law that prohibits police from disturbing a religious service. Happily, this week the Dutch …
Singing to the Deer
When I first moved to Maine, five years ago this week, I got the shock of my life when - looking out the kitchen window - I saw four guys with shotguns walking by the end of our dirt road. I had just been initiated into my first Maine hunting season and I wasn't happy about it. Up until then, …
Choose Love! A Personal and Global Movement
During our session this week, Nantene opened our discussion with the topic of love and its transformational quality. Nantene particularly highlighted what would happen for humanity, and our planet, if we humans started a personal and global "Choose Love" movement (as opposed to our current dominant …
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